Not this weekend, but next. From the Courage to Resist website:
Quantico, VA: Rally for Bradley! March 20
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Rally at the Quantico Marine Base in Virginia to support accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Pfc. Bradley Manning on March 20th! Supporters will gather for a 2pm rally at the town of Triangle (map: intersection of Main St. and Route 1), then march to the gates of the Quantico Marine Corps Base. Bradley has been held at the Quantico brig in solitary-like conditions for six months. We stand for truth, government transparency, and an end to our occupation wars… we stand with Bradley! Event endorsed by the Bradley Manning Support Network, Veterans for Peace, Courage to Resist, CodePink, and many others. Buses from Washington DC have been chartered for this event (departing Union Station at 12:30pm)–reserve your seats today for only $10 RT. The day before, on Saturday, March 19th, in Washington DC, we will be joining the noon rally at Lafayette Park and march on the White House to “Resist the War Machine!”
For the rest of us, here’s a link to Amnesty International’s petition.
Mark S.
Oh, Anne, I’m sure this thread is going to be awesome!
burnspbesq
I am unequivocally in support of the right of the American people to peaceably assemble and exercise their right to free speech. Even when the person on whose behalf those rights are being exercised is a worthless piece of shit like Bradley Manning. Go for it, y’all.
Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)
Send in the clowns.
Don’t bother they’re here.
Mouse Tolliver
Guess I know what I’ll be doing next week since this will be happening almost literally right outside my front door. I can see Quantico from my house. The Marice Corps Museum anyway.
Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)
I hope they remember to carry current registration tags.
soonergrunt
I hope they have fun. I hope they get some great press. I hope nobody gets hurt, nor arrested unnecessarily.
Note–it seems that FYWP is working correctly again.
cleek
“Resist the War Machine!”
“More Ponies!”
“Happy Traitor Day!”
Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)
Look, the kid is gonna spend a long time in prison.
If you really care about him, don’t waste the money on a vanity picnic and send the money instead to his commissary fund.
Two years from now when he’s completely forgotten, he’ll need that money.
General Stuck
Does anyone else have the weird truncated version of BJ on FF? And is there a fix for it? thanks.
soonergrunt
@cleek: You know, sometimes I can’t tell when you’re kidding and when you aren’t.
That’s either a mark of genius or schizophrenia. Given the creation and maintenance of the pie filter, I go with the former and not the latter.
cleek
@Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder’s Dead):
if he’s lucky
General Stuck
I support anti war demonstrations, I also support speedy trials, but if found guilty, Mr Manning is almost certain to be spending a very long time in similar conditions, though possibly without suicide watch, just like all the others convicted of espionage/ He would not likely survive long in general pop, especially if convicted of lending aid and comfort to the enemy.
I support the best possible treatment for Mr Manning going into his likely long stay in the brig. I will not be taking any more news from left wing bloggers on his status however.
cleek
@soonergrunt:
not kidding this time. i got very little sympathy for Manning. yes, i hope the law is followed w/r/t his treatment as a prisoner. but i find his actions to be repulsive. and i’m a bit surprised by the amount of support he’s getting.
eemom
@General Stuck:
easier said than did.
dslak
Don’t those protestors realize that Glenn Greenwald lives in Brazil?
General Stuck
@eemom:
maybe accepting is the better term
Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)
@cleek:
Why would you be surprised? You know jane and glenn have moonie like followers who will act upon any command of their Dear Leader.
cathyx
@dslak: Yes, but Jane Hamsher drove David House there to visit Manning.
JPL
Does the site near more hits? I hope that Manning receives his day in court but there are mixed stories on his treatment.
OT in Japan (from the BBC)
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JPL
@cathyx: Ah yes, she was mistreated because she didn’t didn’t have a valid registration.
The Dangerman
Whistle-blower? They are using a phrase that does not mean what they think it means…
/Inigo Montoya
eemom
@JPL:
Japan? Who cares about Japan? We got a RALLY to go to.
FlipYrWhig
Everyone can wear underpants elastic around their necks!
Roger Moore
@burnspbesq:
Even worthless pieces of shit have rights that the government needs to respect. The moment you let the government ignore people’s rights because you think they’re worthless pieces of shit is the moment your own rights aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)
@The Dangerman: no, he literally blows a whistle.
FlipYrWhig
@Roger Moore: Isn’t that exactly what burns was saying?
Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)
@eemom: in honor of Japan, they can eat sushi at the picnic.
Corner Stone
@Roger Moore: All accused are worthless pieces of shit to burnspbesq. Unless they’re his client or potential corporate client.
Then it’s BRAKES ON BITCHEZ! They did absolutely nothing wrong! And you don’t know the law if you say otherwise! Because I’m a lawyer!
soonergrunt
@Roger Moore:
Agree 100%.
AhabTRuler
@Corner Stone: He’s a lawyer!? I never would have guessed it!
@Roger Moore:
Especially, when, y’know, they haven’t had a trial or been convicted of anything.
Roger Moore
@FlipYrWhig:
No. He’s says he thinks we have the right to do what we want, but that we’re foolish for standing up for Manning because he’s a worthless piece of shit. I’m saying it doesn’t matter whether Manning is a saint or a sinner, what the government is doing to him is wrong and shouldn’t be allowed to stand. If we accept the argument that he’s a piece of shit and we shouldn’t care whether he’s treated illegally, everyone’s right to decent treatment is at risk.
Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)
Godzilla is trending world wide on Twitter
http://twitter.com/search?#search?q=Godzilla
soonergrunt
@cleek: Well, the Trial Counsel referred the Aiding the Enemy charge as a non-capital charge. The Convening Authority could still decide to charge Manning as a capital charge under that article, but it’s unlikely.
The non-capital referral only requires a Judge-alone conviction or a 2/3rds guilty verdict from a members panel of 8 to 12 officers/enlisted.
The capital referral requires firstly a full panel of 12 to return a unanimous guilty verdict, followed by a unanimous death sentence. This will be followed by about 20+ years of appeals and so on, followed by needing the President to actually order the execution.
For all of those reasons, I don’t think it will be a capital referral. I’ve been wrong before, though.
FlipYrWhig
@Roger Moore: OK, I won’t speak for him, but I think you’re saying two versions of the same thing. You’re saying he may be an asshole but he still has rights; he’s saying he has rights but he’s still an asshole. Whatever.
eemom
@Roger Moore:
That would be bad. Because, you know, the right to decent treatment is so carefully upheld in prisons all over this country as a general rule…..and all you zealous protectors of those rights are so vigilant about holding rallies on behalf of poor unknown schmucks who languish in jails everywhere WITHOUT TRIALS because they can’t afford to post bond…..that we really need to nip the single isolated injustice perpetrated on PFC Manning right in the bud.
Jay B.
And from the Courage to Submit website, well, just read this comment section.
soonergrunt
@Jay B.: we can haz linky action, pleeeze?
Djur
Maybe once the government’s done with Manning they can double back and finish the job with Daniel Ellsberg and other enemies of the security state.
Djur
@eemom: Personally, I think all this Manning and Wisconsin stuff is a needless distraction from the fact that Diebold is rigging all our elections and what are we going to do with all the nuclear waste and Darfur? Hypocrites! Why hasn’t Obama spoken out on the ethanol scam??
cathyx
@eemom: What an absurd argument to make that because many others who are in jail get treated poorly that we shouldn’t care about Manning’s mistreatment. I can’t believe you are a lawyer with the way you disregard the rule of law.
Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpcTkV1tKDs&feature=related
Svensker
Thanks for posting this, AL.
And cathyx, what you said.
Good grief.
Martin
@cathyx: I think she’s wondering where the fuck everyone was caring about inmate rights before now.
Cacti
Free Mumia!
Djur
@Martin: A high-profile case generating a lot of specific interest among people who only had a general interest in the issue in the past? Say what?
Why isn’t every liberal constantly engaged in activism on every issue that liberals care about all the time? What a bunch of hypocrites!
cathyx
@Martin: I know that she is. But it’s still an absurd argument to make.
Suck It Up!
@cathyx:
hmmmm….I just thought eeom was just pointing out the inconsistencies of who the left chooses to support.
cat48
It’s nice they show their respect for the president by marching on the whitehouse when he’s in South America. :) heh
cathyx
@Suck It Up!: Just like Djur said, if you haven’t engaged in activism on any subject that now gets some limelight, you have no right to speak up about it now. So just shut up and take it.
General Stuck
@cathyx:
You being the arbiter of good argument around here. Same idiot, just like the old idiot.
Shithead #3
Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)
@cat48:
hehehehehhehehehhehhehe
they can’t do anything right, can they…
hahahahahahhahahahhahaha
hahahahahhahahahahahahh
that’s too much
hehhehehehehehehehheheh
Corner Stone
@soonergrunt:
http://www.balloon-juice.com
Suck It Up!
@cathyx:
???
cathyx
@General Stuck: When one has no argument to make, call someone a name.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
I’m glad the super-activists of Balloon Juice are laser-focused on the true enemy: readers of FDL and GG.
Can you imagine the utopia we’d have if they’d only all fuck off and die? Every single problem we face can be traced back to Jane Hamsher, donchaknow.
Idiots.
Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)
@cathyx: if you’re saying that people have awaken to this issue because of manning, that’s fine. but then, this awakening would extend to other prisoners, even if only the other prisoners on Manning’s cell block. But no. There hasn’t been any effort outside of manning, even now, under this self professed awaken.
And you know what, the minute manning’s trial reaches disposition, you’ll won’t care about this issue any further.
It’s all about manning, it’s only about manning, and no one else. So don’t pretend it’s about an issue, because you insult the other prisoners enduring abuse in the federal, state, county, city, and military systems.
Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)
@Jrod the Cookie Thief: we can dream, can’t we.
General Stuck
@cathyx:
You mean like shithead numbering. you are getting tedious by the day around here. It is bad enough you morons pedaled GG and FDL swill around here for months that has turned out to be bogus, and you cannot admit that, but keep right on truckin’ misreading peoples comments you don’t like for attack. Go to hell without passing go.
General Stuck
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
Piss off wanker
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@General Stuck: Still working hard to keep the BJ comments section as miserable and pathetic as possible, I see.
You are truly doing great things for our country. Where would we be without you and Mike Kay around to pretend that Glenn Greenwald is the root of all evil?
Have you figured out how you’re going to blame GG and Hamsher for the Japanese earthquake and tsunami? Surely they’re to blame somehow.
eemom
Gooooood grief. There are a lot of useful idiots on this blog, aren’t there.
Hey cathyx — you forgot to sing The Who for us. No Manning thread is complete without that.
General Stuck
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
you got punked, own up to it like a man and quit whining like a sissy stick. I don’t give a fuck about GG or FDL, it is the mountain of smoke shit weasals like you with zero integrity have been blowing up our asses that is the problem. I was going to let all this go, but you motherfuckers will not. And insist on keeping it going.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@General Stuck: What the fuck are you talking about?
You morons do realize that I’m not a reader of either FDL or GG, right? I mean, I’ve only said so a few hundred times.
I’m only pointing out the fucking obvious: THEY ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY, AND YOUR STRAINED EFFORTS TO PRETEND THEY ARE ARE STUPID STUPID STUPID.
But please, explain to me how I got “punked” by any one of you fuckwits. Be specific.
General Stuck
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
If you didn’t get punked by GG and FDL, then why in fuck are you writing comments like this one defending them,
and have been for a long time. In your case it is more like being a miserable little troll coming by now and again to bleat your superiority over what is being discussed here, rarely offering anything other than that. You are nothing more that a low rent Loblaw. He is much better at that kind of preening.
General Stuck
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
Bullshit is my only enemy, with or without a name attached.
gbear
@Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder’s Dead): The way things are going, they’ll need to microwave the sushi if they want to honor Japan.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@General Stuck: I’m just pointing out how dipshits like you are doing far, FAR more damage to the left than Jane Hamsher or Glenn Greenwald could ever hope to do.
It’s just funny to me that you never get this worked up about what the right does. Walker in Wisconsin just destroyed a bunch of unions and Snyder in Michigan is about to implement a corporatist takeover of the cities, but big fucking deal. Some activists are protesting about Manning. Those are the people who truly deserve unbridled bile and hatred!
If you have a problem with leftist infighting, then stop doing it, jackass.
@General Stuck: Wow. You really are clueless. No, you obviously hate bullshit, which is why you constantly peddle it. Of course.
General Stuck
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
you are goddamn liar. Everything you said in this comment is a fucking lie. Now go fuck yourself, you stupid sack of lying shit.
your the type of motherfucker than sets fire to the burn then complains about the smoke and fire. YOU came into this thread with a smart ass insult, YOU jackass
eemom
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
Fer fuck’s sake — do you have any idea how stupid that is? Have you not seen the eleventy zillion posts on those topics?
General Stuck
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
And you worthless fuck, I just reread the thread, and you were the first to mention Jane and GG, and the Obots almost all supported the protest and better treatment for Manning.
And the smartasss shit stirring was near exclusively the firebagger twits infecting this blog.
General Stuck
@eemom:
Goddamn, these miscreants make me mad sometimes.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
Well gee whiz, let’s just pop over to the front-page thread on Michigan and see what Stuck has to say. Surely he’s venting at least as much rage over that as he is over the horrible affront that is people protesting without getting his OK first.
Lessee, Ctrl-F Stuck…
Oh, he had nothing at all to say. Guess that’s not much to get worked up about in comparison to protesters who might have read Glenn Greenwald at some point, and are therefore inhuman scum.
Well, how about that thread concerning the sell-off of Wisconsin’s power plants. Surely that uncontrolled rage will shine through there, right?
Ctrl-F Stuck…
One post, in which he calmly makes a snarky comment.
But, you’re so right. This thread was just chock full of reasoned debate and decorum until I showed up to “start a fire”.
@eemom: I haven’t seen you, Stuck, or Mike Kay expend even 1/10th of the anger on what Republicans do as I’ve seen about those horrible ol’ firebaggers. What conclusion is a person supposed to draw from that?
General Stuck
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
read my first comment in this thread jackass, and the people that read this blog every day know full well I shoot my mouth likely to a fault on the WI situation, so you are just full of shit.
General Stuck
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
You were the one that brought GG and Jane into this thread. How many times you going to punk yourself today Jackrod?
soonergrunt
@Corner Stone: I wondered how long that would take.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@General Stuck: Yeah, I know you talk about it. But you’re pretty clearly not remotely as angry about that as you are about the fact that firebaggers exist.
Whatever. I’m wasting my fucking time. You want to hate on people to your left, and everything else is just window dressing. Just don’t sit there and pretend that attitudes like yours have nothing to do with fracturing the left.
General Stuck
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
You are the one who introduced GG and Jane into this thread. I am laughing my ass off at you fool.
Case Closed
soonergrunt
@gbear: I don’t like raw fish anyway.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@General Stuck: Yes, it’d be silly to think your hatred of people protesting Manning’s treatment is in any way connected to your hatred of firebaggers. Obviously I’m in the wrong for thinking there’s a connection.
Every new thread exists in a vacuum. Your previous statements no longer exist once a new thread is out. There is no such thing as context.
General Stuck
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
LOL – JRod – punked his self to a pulp.
Well, we know who your worst enemy is, YOU
Corner Stone
@soonergrunt: I thought about it for a bit, but in the end decided I would enjoy posting it. So I went with it.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@General Stuck: Keep saying that! Repeating bullshit until stupid people believe it works pretty well for the Republicans, so I’m sure it’ll work as well for you.
General Stuck
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
Would you like a cookie?
soonergrunt
@Corner Stone: sometimes you just gotta take the easy shot.
eemom
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
well, there are two possible conclusions. Either (1) you are talking out your ass with 0 evidence, or (2) you spend your life keeping little scorecards of everything each of us says in all the comments on all the threads but are too stupid to do the math correctly.
Stillwater
Poor Stuck. Desperately trying to m maintain order in a comment revolution. (/JSF)
Ha! That never gets old!
cleek
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
classic. PUMA!
El Cid
State Department spokesperson is not mature enough in his political outlook.
Clearly he hates the troops. Firebagger, PUMA, etc.
joe from Lowell
So, they don’t stand against inhuman prison conditions. They don’t stand for the military following its regulations about pre-trial detention.
This isn’t a rally against the conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention. This is a rally about how awesome this guy is for violating his oath in order to get back at the eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil United States.
This statement proves what people have been saying: all of this ginned-up concern about the conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention is just a pretext, a front in the PR war about how awesome Wikileaks is. And when Bradley Manning is forgotten, we aren’t going to hear a word from these people about the abuses of solitary confinement and the inhumane conditions of the 100,000 people being held in it.
What a bunch of phonies. These people care about “torture” and solitary confinement about as much as Dick Cheney cared about democracy circa 2005. It’s just something they say for PR purposes.
joe from Lowell
@Djur:
The problem is, it isn’t generating interest in the issue of our prison system’s conditions. Take a look at the announcement for the rally again.
This could have been an opportunity to draw attention to the problem of prison conditions generally, and solitary confinement in particular, but the fanatical firebaggers who’ve latched onto it purposely, deliberately steering the conversation away from that issue. They’d rather pretend that what’s (allegedly) happening to Manning is unique, an expression of the policy of the Obama administration. They’d rather talk about what an awesome hero Bradley Manning is for betraying the military and his country.
joe from Lowell
@Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder’s Dead): If cathyx ever writes a single comment about solitary confinement after Bradley Manning is no longer in the news, I will eat a bug.
(I’m not going to be eating any bugs).
Tim
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
They are obsessed. Any FP post that mentions FDL, GG, or Bradley Manning is immediately swarmed by these freaks, slobbering in their eagerness to shut down any discussion that goes contrary to their narrative that the above mentioned are the worst humans on earth and anyone who supports or even references them must be silenced.
It is weird, and telling.
Especially in the case of the foul smelling EETWAT.
Tim
@General Stuck:
wow. What a sad, lonely, angry little thing is the Stuck. Every thread is loaded with its comments; it has no life outside of posting on BJ, and anyone who challenges its positions as outlined here must be utterly destroyed and reviled, because BJ is all the Stuck has.
Tim
@eemom:
You are dishonest, EeTwat. YOUR number of posts and frothing hate is saved especially for lefties who reference GG, FDL, or BM. You are either not who you claim to be, or you are unbalanced.
Tim
@joe from Lowell:
You would have made a great comrade during the glory years of the USSR. Everything the state and the military does is correct, and anyone who dares oppose it is a traitor.
BM has a thousand times more courage than you or any of your other cretin FDL/GG-obsessed hater friends here.
soonergrunt
Wow. Timmaaaaay really, really likes his pie. He’s been spamming the hell out of the end of a dead thread about it.
I like apple and blueberry and strawberry pie, myself, but I don’t have this weird obsession with it.
Tim
SG, it is interesting that YOU are commenting at the end of a thread which you claim to have declared “dead.”
Your alleged (and very very cute and precious and special) pie filter must not work very well, as you are obviously compelled to reply to a post you allegedly don’t read.
Anyway…how much did you suck from the military/government pension teet this month?
General Stuck
@Tim:
There is something seriously wrong with you
Canadian Observer
Joe from Lowell, once (again) justifying Fascism.
You’d make a great paid commentator for the CCP, joe, telling us how it’s OK Liu Xiabo is in prison because he (gasp!) subverted state power!
Water-carrying toolbag.
Tim
@General Stuck:
and the stuck is still heard from, here in the foul bowels of an allegedly “dead” thread, trying to stifle and insult any opposition to the last breath.
when was the last time you went more than 12 hours without posting on BJ? Obviously, it is the only life you have. Are you on the government dole like Soonergrunt, sitting in front of your monitor in your jammies, on your wheelchair-scooter stuffing yourself with Doritos again today?
You come up with some pretty creative snark, but the hatefulness and bile just below and often above the surface spoils any opportunity to appreciate it fully.
General Stuck
@Tim:
I’m in a good mood today, and not even a pathos like you can ruin it. So I will just say turn off your computer and hi tail it too the nearest psychiatrist and get the help you desperately need.
So I’m done with this thread
Canadian Observer
People like you and JFL are no better than the “left” Social Democrats in 1914 who voted for the Kaiser’s war credits inthe Reichstag.
Run a long and be good little Germans.
mclaren
Don’t you mean “resisters”?
Resistors are what we use in electronic circuits. How many megohms do the WI resistors rate?